What can /k/ tell me about this? I just picked it up on the cheap.

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Close up of the serial.

surplus ammo is stupidly rare and corrosive. it also wasn't kept in dry places. so it might not work.

you can make the ammo using AK bullets and resizing common full size rifle brass.

magazines can be a problem.

I have one. It's a safe queen because I cannot into reloading right now.

cartridge is just a few tenths of a milimeter too long to be used in an AR15 pattern rifle.

neat gas system.

she's just a collectors piece for me. i found her on a buy/sell/trade group im in and wanted to make sure she found a good home. i just want to know a little history. does anyone know anything about manufacturing dates or anything? i probably wont ever get to shoot it but holy shit i got her for 250.

>>33032272
This essentially. I have one as well, but I'm on my phone with no pic handy.

You got lucky on the stock it seems, century slathered bed liner on a bunch to cover up cracked stocks when they were imported. Ammo is all but dried up, and nobody makes it. Mine is a safe queen as well since I don't wanna shoot my last two boxes.

If you do find ammo, check the neck. One of my cases was malformed and got stuck. It took a week of soaking it in PB Blaster and destroying a brass cleaning rod to finally unstick it.

>>33032247

On the off chance you're in the Mat-Su Valley area in Alaska, I have a magazine for a VZ-52 you can have.

>>33032255
Yours was made in 56, right before they switched to the 52/57 that shoots 7.62x39.

Also, they do make collars that will "convert" your 52 to shoot x39, but they are epoxied in and have a tendency to fly out with a case while shooting.

>>33032344
Nice! thank you! i really got lucky with this. some guy was just using it for trade bait so i offered him cash to take it. stock is in good condition. a little rust on the mag and the spring but im going to clean it up. it's just a curio piece that i'm excited to have.

>>33032343
i'm in virginia, but i appreciate the offer

>>33032272
Is there a way to convert it to 5.56?

>>33032272
>resizing common full size rifle brass.
What kind of full size rifle brass?

>>33032438

No problem.

The mag just came in a big box of random parts and accessories I bought at an auction.

>>33032464
6.5 Carcano was one IIRC, also there was some durr cartridge you could cut and reform, but I can't remember which one it was now. .243 maybe?

>>33032452
Yes, sell it for $500 and use that money to buy a basic AR.

>>33032464
6.5x54 Mannlicher Schnouer and I think 6.5 carcano

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>>33032497

ARs are boring.

>>33032530
Tough shit, can't be a hipster if you're poor.

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>>33032452
why the hell would you want to do that?

>>33032646
To make it actually shootable.

>>33032755
it's already shootable, if you don't want to put in the effort to obtain ammo then that's your problem.

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>>33032247
VZ52 rifle

If it's in 7.62x45, you aren't gonna get to shoot it
If it's in x39, have fun, they're nice guns

>tfw paid $450 for a x39 barreled receiver and x45 barreled receiver both headspaced to the same bolt so everything can simply be swapped between the two if I ever wanted to shoot x45